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Post-work tempo
By Kevin | April 21, 2009
After a work-day that was highlighted by spending the final day with my Pioneer Elementary school “interns”, I headed out for a pre-dinner tempo run. I have to say, I was impressed with the 5th graders who joined me for a couple days to see what it’s like to work in a Police Department. Today, they went through a mock bank-robbery, and practiced their detective skills. I don’t think I was as observant as they were when I was that age!
I prepared for the post-work run by cramming down a granola bar, banana, and water around 4:30pm. Got out on the run about 30-min. later, and wished I had downed my snack earlier. It was still kinda sitting there, and I felt under-fueled from the start of my run. But, I went on anyway, hoping it would get into my system soon.
It was quite warm too, and I found myself sweating pretty early, which is something I’m not used to because of the dry air at altitude. I tried to crank out a classic tempo-run, in which the mile splits are kind of a bell-curve: starting slow to warm up, and speeding up a bit more each mile to the middle of the run, then gradually slowing down again towards the end.
I nailed the bell-curve pretty well, but screwed it up by stopping to water a tree just past mile 5. You can see that stoppage on my Garmin graphs. But otherwise, the splits were decent: 9:53, 9:22, 9:11, 8:54, 9:42, 12:25.Â
I’m also getting several comments from folks at the Active.com running community that they think I’m some kind of freak for doing the NJ Marathon without extended training. They may be right, but I’m doing it anyway…and I’m gonna enjoy it!
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